More strikes are in the offing after thousands of staff brought Birmingham City Council to a standstill on February 5 in protest at the imposition of a new pay structure.
The government has called for fresh efforts to promote community cohesion and tackle tensions as well as setting out policies to create stronger local communities across the UK.
Local government minister John Healey has announced that councils will again be allowed to use capitalisation to help meet their equal pay obligations.
Up to 7,000 of Britain's soldiers are unfit to fight, leaving frontline troops 'dangerously exposed,' according to figures obtained by the Conservatives.
The tax credits system continues to lose £1bn a year as a result of fraud, error and overpayment, a report by the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
The future of the Scottish National Party government led by First Minister Alex Salmond was secured when its first budget was approved by MSPs this week.
A single Regional Health and Social Care Board is to be established in Northern Ireland, replacing four existing boards, Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has announced.
New Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell has vowed to press ahead with the radical welfare reforms set out by former investment banker David Freud.
Housing associations are missing out on potential savings worth more than £100m per year because they pay too much for maintenance services, the Audit Commission claimed this week.
A council strongly criticised for its performance has been told to speed up improvement by the Accounts Commission, the local government watchdog for Scotland.
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has urged the government to speed up the introduction of alternatives to prison for women in the criminal justice system.
Britain must end its 'addiction' to the idea that choice and diversity in public services inevitably lead to inequalities, new Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has warned.
Scotland's groundbreaking policy of providing free personal and nursing care for elderly people was introduced without sufficient clarity about whether it was a universal entitlement or one dependent...
The government will find itself under pressure to top up public sector spending if it is to meet its policy commitments, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted in its annual 'green budget'.
The government has ordered a review of the eligibility criteria for adult social care services, after a report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection warned that hundreds of thousands of...
